#global warming

[crazycatsiren]

On top of everything else, we now have to worry about tornadoes. Yes, that's right: tornadoes, in the fricking state of Maryland. 🌪

[icymirss]

The Stunning Collapse of the Climate Scam, Documented

For those who have been paying attention, the stunning collapse of the climate scam over the past year has been something to behold.

First there was the COP Flop.

Then the US withdrew from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Then Judith Curry retired her blog, opining that "It's time to declare victory against climate stupidity and move on."

Then The Guardian published an article lamenting that less than 5% of UK media outlets have used the recent European heat wave as an excuse to promote Net Zero propaganda.

And now even The New York Times is waving the white flag on the climate Armageddon story... well, kind of.

So, what on earth is happening? How did we go from a world where the climate apocalypse was touted as an existential threat to life on earth and trumpeted on the news every single day to a world where climate change isn't even on the radar anymore?

Let's find out.

Continue reading at: https://corbettreport.substack.com/p/the-stunning-collapse-of-the-climate

[mrdragonageherself]

I used to always complain because although my birthday fell in the summer holidays it always rained without fail on my birthday. Now I'm paying for rain on my birthday

[krazykupcakes113]

My state (& city) is on fire :(

This sucks

[dirjoh-blog]

The Giants of Prehistoric Britain: Elephants and Mammoths

The contemporary landscape of the British Isles, characterized by rolling green hills, temperate woodlands, and dense urban centers, offers little immediate hint of a wilder, more megafaunal past. Yet, for hundreds of thousands of years during the Pleistocene epoch—commonly known as the Ice Age—what is now Great Britain was home to some of the largest land mammals to ever walk the Earth. Far from…

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[h00pqueen]

So in my state (east coast USA, middle-ish) it has been a joke that our seasons go: winter, false spring, second winter, rain, road work season, hot as balls, fall, and winter again. Well that keeps getting worse/more distinct as we go on. Like false spring used to be a couple weeks of relatively warm weather, now it’s long and warm enough that the trees make leaves which all get cased in ice during second winter a few weeks later. And this year we had 6 inches of solid ice on our whole area for like 10 days straight, like we were in Alaska or something.

I’m wondering if, instead of a second dust bowl or ice age, maybe we are heading towards a shorter seasonal rotation instead? Like we end up officially having 2 winters with ice per year with super hot short summers between? That would be devastating for agriculture, which we also have a lot of.

I just don’t see any sci-fi movies about that being a possibility. What a missed opportunity.

[mrdragonageherself]

Btw Ireland is on fire constantly this summer. I live on the outskirts of the capital and this whole summer theres been crazy fires raging. In wetlands. And you want to generate your little ChatGPT essay/ugly ass fake art

[t0rschlusspan1k-die-huelse]

Long-term study suggests landfill methane emissions are far higher than estimates

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely l

Methane is an especially potent greenhouse gas, causing much more warming than carbon dioxide on a unit-for-unit basis—and a new, uniquely long-term study of emissions at a New Jersey landfill suggests that estimates of methane pollution in the U.S. and elsewhere may be dramatically off. The study, published by researchers at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia Climate School, used continuous ground-based measurements to determine that landfill methane emissions are likely much higher than current estimates. Methane's potency is caused by the geometric structure of its molecules, which allows them to absorb more infrared light—and thus become hotter—than carbon dioxide does (CO2). One ton (0.9 metric tons) of methane has the warming potential of about 28 tons (25 metric tons) of CO2; in 2022, the most recent year for which official U.S. emissions data exist, methane accounted for roughly 12% of the country's greenhouse gas emissions. A similar proportion applies to global emissions. Landfills, where decomposing organic waste feeds methane-generating microbes, are responsible for an estimated 17% of U.S. methane emissions. [...]